Ug. I just bought a new cookbook. It's that Room For Dessert one that I keep hearing about. Not that I need any more desserts, mind you. Although, an interesting thing has happened. When I went in to get my mole removed a week ago, the nurse informed me that I've lost 10 lbs since March. That's in spite of a major cooking binge I've been on, packed full of pies, breads, and really fattening things. I'm blaming it on whole grains, and Brandon (I like to blame good things on him). By the way, we're going to start trying in January! I wish it were January...
Speaking of January... I love my little Arcata, but it has it's down points. One of these is that it usually feels like winter here. Like Arcata winter anyways. There is no hot sunny summer here. There are, pretty much all year round, beautiful-sunny-freezing cold days, interspersed with an equal number of beautiful-rainy-misty-foggy-freezing cold days. The only real problem with this is that fruit don't grow. Which isn't even accurate, but the farmers at the farmer's market (which I adore) like to use it as an excuse to make all their damn food cost really a lot. It isn't very economical to live here. Even the Co-op, which I adore, is loosing points rapidly. What I need, is a big damn yard. I think 10 acres would do the trick nicely, but I'd be willing to settle for 2, or 1 if I had to, or even a 1/2. But 10 would be nice. I've come to the conclusion that 3 is the magic number of my future dream orchard. I want 3 varieties of everything, figs, peaches, pears, apples, cherries, plums, every type of berry I can think of, pomegranites, persimmons, quinces, everything else I've forgotten. With tons of herbs, flowers and veggies of course. I also want goats, chickens and rabbits. And a baby.
What bring me to this is my recent experience with peaches. Real peaches are super, and real peaches from the farmer's market are super expensive. Which really sucks, and I need a peach tree to support my peach habit. There's this fellow at the market who has a little tree stand which I love entirely, the tree's- not the fellow, though he's pretty nifty too. I've bought from him a fig tree, 2 kiwi vines, and last weekend an elderberry tree, and probably other stuff that I'm forgetting. Everything is doin swell! See:
My fig, we've been together for 2 years now.
My girl Kiwi.
My elderberry.
Here are a few of my other plant sweeties:
Speaking of January... I love my little Arcata, but it has it's down points. One of these is that it usually feels like winter here. Like Arcata winter anyways. There is no hot sunny summer here. There are, pretty much all year round, beautiful-sunny-freezing cold days, interspersed with an equal number of beautiful-rainy-misty-foggy-freezing cold days. The only real problem with this is that fruit don't grow. Which isn't even accurate, but the farmers at the farmer's market (which I adore) like to use it as an excuse to make all their damn food cost really a lot. It isn't very economical to live here. Even the Co-op, which I adore, is loosing points rapidly. What I need, is a big damn yard. I think 10 acres would do the trick nicely, but I'd be willing to settle for 2, or 1 if I had to, or even a 1/2. But 10 would be nice. I've come to the conclusion that 3 is the magic number of my future dream orchard. I want 3 varieties of everything, figs, peaches, pears, apples, cherries, plums, every type of berry I can think of, pomegranites, persimmons, quinces, everything else I've forgotten. With tons of herbs, flowers and veggies of course. I also want goats, chickens and rabbits. And a baby.
What bring me to this is my recent experience with peaches. Real peaches are super, and real peaches from the farmer's market are super expensive. Which really sucks, and I need a peach tree to support my peach habit. There's this fellow at the market who has a little tree stand which I love entirely, the tree's- not the fellow, though he's pretty nifty too. I've bought from him a fig tree, 2 kiwi vines, and last weekend an elderberry tree, and probably other stuff that I'm forgetting. Everything is doin swell! See:
My fig, we've been together for 2 years now.
My girl Kiwi.
My elderberry.Here are a few of my other plant sweeties:
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